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B04311	A sermon preached on Sunday the XXVI of July, 1685. Being the day appointed for solemn thanksgiving to almighty God, for his Majesties late victory over the rebels. / Preached at Wakefield by Obadiah Lee, M.A. and vicar there.	Lee, Obadiah, 1636 or 7-1700.	1685 (1685)	Wing L885B; ESTC R222844	9,795	31

to deserved Justice and a Ruine to all his Confederates Reason I Rebellion is a sin against God himself though intended chiefly for the ruine of his Vicegerents We cannot lift up a hand against the Lords anointed but we lift it up against the Lord that made him so we cannot Rebel against Authority but we Rebel against God I do not speak this of my self Scripture it self speaks as much Numbers 16. Korah and his Accomplices rose up against Moses and Aaron but we find in the 11th verse of that chapter that God takes it as done to himself it was against God that they set themselves so in Moses his speech to Korah For which cause thou and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord. So in the recital of this History Numbers 26. 9. This is that Dathan and Abiram which were famous in the Congregation who strove against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah when they strove against the Lord mind it it was against Moses and Aaron that they strove and yet withal it was against God himself and then no wonder that such find a judgment worthy of God Reason II It is against the whole Community Rebellion is universally destructive and the more universally influential to evil the greater the Sin and the greater must needs be the punishment Rebels are hostes humani generis Enemies to mankind St. Paul tells us not only that Rulers come from God but they are set up for our good they are the Ministers of God to thee for good whosoever thou art whether High or Low Rich or Poor they are ordained of God for all our good even all mankind without whom the World would be like a Wild Forest wherein the weaker Beasts become a prey to the stronger and men in it like the Fishes of the Sea it is the Prophet Habakkuks similitude Habakkuk 1.14 the greater devouring the less without these mankind could not continue they therefore that are Enemies to these must needs be Enemies to mankind If then we would eschew ruine let us flie Rebellion if we would not fare ill let us do well carry our selves peaceably and quietly in those places wherein Providence hath set us for who is he that will harm you if you be followers of that which is good 1 Pet. 3.13 Thirdly The third thing in the Text is the Praise and Thanksgiving Blessed be the Lord thy God that hath delivered up the men that lift up their hand against my Lord the King This is the main of the Text where we have three things Observable First This Valiant Ahimaaz does not ascribe the Victory to their own valour and conduct to their Arms or Armies but to him who stiles himself the Lord of Hosts it is by him that these Enemies of the King those that lift up their hand against him were delivered up to ruine and destruction And should teach us to do the same in the like case it is God that puts Valour and Courage into Souldiers that gives Wisdom and Conduct to Officers that gives Victory and success to Armies And then what better use can we make of this dayes Celebrated mercy than a Deo gratias Blessed be God that he hath delivered up the men that lift up their hand against our Lord the King Mercies vouchsafed especially delivering mercies Victory over Enemies should be received with Thanksgiving and Praise to God who is mighty in Battel The Second thing observable Ahimaaz in this Doxology calls God King Davids God certainly he is the God of the whole Creation the God of the Spirits of all flesh especially the God of Israel a people in Covenant with him whom he had then chosen for his peculiar inheritance And yet he is in a peculiar manner the Kings God not only by special Ordination as he that set him up at first but by special preservation as he that kept him there where he at first set him up viz. on the Throne of Israel and thus though God be the God of all yet he is in a peculiar manner wonderful among the Kings of the Earth To this God Ahimaaz ascribes the glory of the Victory and gives the Praise The Third thing observable and herein he is a fit example for us to follow Bless God for this mercy this day Celebrated which we shall see we have the greater cause to do if we consider what might have been the effects of this Rebellion had it succeeded It is true they pretended to rise up against Popery and for the Liberty and Priviledge of the people opprest by Tyranny and it s very likely they would have made good their promise in their own sense for Rebels promises are alwayes equivocal the Popery they declared against would have proved Episcopacy the effect of it the subversion of the Church of England for that we know is Rebels Popery had the success been answerable to their desire we should have had no Bishop but Bishop Ferguson with his Lay-Elders And they would its like have secured the peoples Liberties and Properties but it would have been in their own hands where it would have been no easie thing to have got them out again And as for the King that they would have set over them he would have dwindled into a Duke of Venice where all might have been transacted according to the dictates of the infallible Senate These Hoghen Moghens would its like have prefer'd their King to the new nothing of a Stat-holder while they themselves had ruled the roast for cut but once the line of Royal Succession and none can be King but by the long Sword or the peoples bounty And they are like to Reign as Kings indeed who are beholden to the people that they are so The Bill of Exclusion would have made Kingly Government precarious would have brought in Arbitrary Government indeed much worse than that which our Malecontents have wrongfully complained of and then have we not great cause to bless God for this days mercy One thing I would mind you of and then shall put an end to my discourse Let us have a care while we bless God we do not dishonour him let us not bless him as if he was some Heathenish Bacchus pleased with full Cups and honoured with intemperance which we should be the more careful in because it is the Lords day which certainly upon no occasion should be profaned and therefore let us be careful to be Religious while we have a grateful sense of this dayes mercy We cannot its true Praise God too much but we may easily drink too much and drunkenness is but a bad conclusion of a Lords Days Sacrifice I shall end where I did begin blessed be the Lord our God that hath delivered up the men that lift up their hand against our Lord the King To which God the Father Son and Holy Ghost be given for this and all other his mercies all Honour Glory Praise and Thanksgiving now and for ever Amen FINIS